Please format your documents

This post from Anil Dash earlier in the month was immediately added to my collection of professional “must reads”. In fact, I think it should form part of everyones “first day at work” bootcamp. This is particularly on point:

The most common failure cases I see in these kinds of situations [sharing a document internally] is people starting from deep within their own heads, either because they’ve been fully immersed in a particular project, or because they’re reacting to their own fears or concerns.

→ Make better documents

As companies become increasingly reliant on asynchronous forms of communication in order to facilitate remote work, helping people articulate their ideas in a way that makes them intelligible, convincing, and, to some extent, entertaining, is going to be key to building successful teams.

Bonus tip: LLMs are a great way to quickly give your document a snappy name that won’t immediately bore people to death.